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MACs Focus on Medicare Payments for Illegal Immigrants

Published on Fri Jan 04, 2013

Medicare payments for illegal immigrants are under the microscope, as the OIG identified certain "overpayments" for beneficiaries who were unlawfully present in the United States for a period of time, reports Palmetto GBA. This glitch could occur when the Social Security Administration is slow to update its records of beneficiaries’ residential status, and thus the Medicare files are late in [...]
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